{"id":591,"date":"2021-04-12T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=591"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:01:33","slug":"order-acknowledgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/04\/12\/order-acknowledgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Order Acknowledgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase orders, invoices and receipts are very common lures for phishing and malspam campaigns. In this case, the vagueness of the message should be a red flag. When in doubt about emails like this, it&#8217;s best to err on the side of caution and not click on any links or attachments, which may direct you to phishing content or contain malware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-592\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-order-acknowledgement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-order-acknowledgement.png 618w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-order-acknowledgement-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this case, the PDF tries to make you believe that it has been secured in a way that means you have to login to view the content. In reality, clicking on &#8220;View On Adobe&#8221; will actually take you to a phishing site that pretends to be the Adobe login page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-594\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-purchase-pdf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-purchase-pdf.png 407w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/04\/2021-04-12-purchase-pdf-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase orders, invoices and receipts are very common lures for phishing and malspam campaigns. In this case, the vagueness of the message should be a red flag. When in doubt about emails like this, it&#8217;s best to err on the side of caution and not click on any links or attachments, which may direct you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/04\/12\/order-acknowledgement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Order Acknowledgement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}